Tutorial Tuesday – 10 Illustrator Tutorials For Beginners

This week in Tutorial Tuesday – we feature 10 easy Illustrator Tutorials for Beginners. When you’re trained in Photoshop and just getting started in Illustrator it’s quite easy to get lost in the fray of things. YouTheDesigner has curated a list of 10 tutorials for beginners to really get started with the program and to help brush up on their Illustrator game.

The first piece of design advice I wish I had gotten when I was learning Illustrator was that – everything is composed of shapes. This explores some really easy and convenient tips about constructing forms with shapes.

Our friends over at the Tuts+ Network are generally really great about Tutorials. When I first started with Illustrator, I did the little exercise with the word ‘Vector’ to teach me about how to handle Bezier Curves. This is also a great read for advanced Pen Tooling.

When you’re coming from Photoshop – there are moments of genuine frustration where you stare at the screen and go ‘this is so much easier in Photoshop’. This collection of tips solves half the headscratchers that might be plaguing you.

This covers how to add grain, patterns and textures to your illustrations your pieces.

If you want more tutorials – you can also check out our last tutorial where we taught you how to create this awesome Bob Dylan Poster. Please feel free to show us your work! Let us know your thoughts by leaving a comment below.You can also hit us up on our Facebook, Twitter and Google+ profiles. Lastly, our RSS Feeds is open for subscription so that you can stay creative!